Project

Microgravity fluid behavior for medical device design

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Blaga Ditrow

Blaga Ditrow / Zero Gravity Corporation / MIT Space Exploration Initiative

By Madelyn Hoying, PhD student in MIT and Harvard Medical School's Medical Engineering and Medical Physics program

This project looks at fluid behavior in altered gravity conditions to inform medical device design. Results will let us develop devices to monitor epithelial barrier function in astronauts on the Moon, Mars, and in microgravity.

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Blaga Ditrow